[Thinkpad] OK, not a Thinkpad issue, but bear with me... Any ideas?

[Keith Schawel]

On 2/7/07, RWM (Out of the Office) <RWM at rwmann.com> wrote:
>
> After a scheduled boot time defrag, my primary Compaq desktop has
> developed a repeated black screen (could be blue; too quick to see or
> read) reboot after performing an apparently successful "scheduled disk
> check" from the partial Win2k splash screen.
>
> It POSTS OK, boots through BIOS OK, boots through the black and white
> zipper OK, boots through the Win2K splash screen with blue progress bar,
> then proceeds to the repeated "disk check has been scheduled" phase,
> completes this successfully, then crashes.
>
> I have tried booting to "last known good configuration" and safe mode,
> same outcomes.
>
> Any ideas on this?  I have the Win2K CD, so can try a recovery, if
> that's likely to be useful.
>
> Yes, I have Ghost backups, but of course now have no client on which to
> recover them.
>
> - RWM, from a Thinkpad...
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Press F8 on startup, is there an option to disable automatic restart on
system failure?  If there is, do it and you can see what the error actually
is.

Keith